About 2.6m Uzbek citizens are in Russia

He said that migration bodies of Uzbekistan and Russia continued to develop their relations in 2013. The sides are regularly monitoring issues relegated processes from Uzbekistan to Russia within the working group on implementation inter-governmental agreement on labour activities and protection rights of labour migrants, preventing illegal migration and re-admission.

He said that Russian Federal Migration Service provides services, which will allow people to check if there is reason for forbidding person to enter to Russia by foreigners and people without citizenship.

Tyurdenov said that according to the Russian Federal Migration Service, number of citizens of Uzbekistan in Russia makes up 2.6 million citizens as of November 2013.